This is the most recent article that I could find. I haven't heard anything more about it on ESPN but that's not too surprising. ESPN loves them some Pete Carroll.
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Of course, this article is not exactly straight journalism, either, but rather a commentary on the whole situation. Interesting article but does anyone have anything on the actual investigation?
NCAA Constantly Buckling to USC in Investigation 'Showdown'
http://ncaafootball.fanhouse.com/2009/08/07/ncaa-constantly-buckling-to-usc-in-investigation-showdowPosted Aug 07, 2009 1:58PM By Greg Couch (RSS feed)
Filed Under: USC
"This is a game of chicken. Down on one end of the street is USC, revving its engine. On the other end is the NCAA, doing the same. And they are about to start barreling toward each other. Which one will chicken out?
I'm going with the NCAA on that one. It has been three years now since we knew that USC had become the classic college sports cheat. USC athletic director Mike Garrett figures Trojan football is too big and strong to be touchable. Heisman winners getting hundreds of thousands of dollars from shady characters hanging around. Basketball coaches getting into the mud, and maybe a slush fund, to recruit. That's just a start."
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"What Garrett has done is play a world-class game of chicken. That, and produce an embarrassing video on YouTube explaining, as if talking to kindergartners: "Believe me no one wants to get to the bottom of this matter more than I do ... But there is a process. And that process is dictated by the NCAA rules and making sure that the investigation is conducted in a manner that would ensure that we get, indeed, to the truth.''
Indeed, we already have it. The question is what the NCAA will do with it. Garrett has handled things the way a former football star now wearing a suit would be expected, by daring NCAA officials to take action against a money-making powerhouse."
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